Current Events > Trump under fire for insensitive racial comments towards intelligence analyst.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/trump-intelligence-analyst-pretty-korean-lady

Amid a global furore over his reported remarks about shithole countries and immigration, Donald Trump faced further controversy on Friday when it was reported that he referred to an intelligence analyst presenting information to him in the Oval Office as a pretty Korean lady and suggested she should be part of negotiations with North Korea.

NBC News reported the exchange between the president and a career intelligence analyst who is an expert in hostage policy. The analyst, the report said, was briefing Trump last fall on the impending release of a family long held in Pakistan.

Citing two officials with direct knowledge of the exchange, NBC said the president asked the analyst where she was from, to which she said New York City. Trump reportedly pressed, asking where your people were from.

The NBC report said the analyst said her parents were Korean, leading Trump to ask an adviser why the pretty Korean lady was not involved in negotiations with nuclear-armed North Korea.

NBC said it did not interview the analyst, whose identity and agency it did not reveal, citing concern for her privacy. The White House did not immediately comment.

On Twitter on Friday morning, Trump denied having made the shithole remark. The senior Democratic senator Dick Durbin, who was in the meeting, subsequently said that he had.

According to NBC, the officials who discussed the pretty Korean lady remark said the president likely meant no harm with his inquiry, but it raised concern of a lack of cultural sensitivity and decorum.

The NBC report listed other instances of the president speaking with an apparent lack of sensitivity in formal surroundings, in meetings with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and with Navajo code talkers.

The president reportedly expressed surprise that no CBC members knew Ben Carson, the housing and urban development secretary who is the only black member of his cabinet.

At the code talkers event, in November, Trump joked about the Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, whom he has nicknamed Pochahontas over her claim of Native American ancestry.

2018 is already looking like the year of the Don.
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Donald trump is a typical CEman
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Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*
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we elected an ignorant senile grandpa.
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I'm literally shaking
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I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.
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I guess compliments are offensive. Welcome to the world we live in, I guess
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TheVipaGTS posted...

we elected an ignorant senile grandpa.

Uncle Sam, what happened to you?
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Diet Racism: When you think Korean people all have a psychic link with one another or something
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Man, at this rate America can be as sexist and racist as it wants and thanks to liberals ruining those terms even real sexism and racism will be be ignored.
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The Admiral posted...

I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.

The lady in Question was AMERICAN, Trump called her Korean.
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The Admiral posted...

I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.

Coming from someone who praises racial and ethnic profiling, your complete lack of understanding over what kind of language is appropriate in certain situations is not only pitiable but also unsurprising.
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Calling someone Korean is racially insensitive?
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Steve Nick posted...

Calling someone Korean is racially insensitive?

Not necessarily, but saying they should be involved in diplomatic negotiations with Korea just because they're North Korean is lolworthy.

It's like going up to some random black dude on the street and going "Hey I think you'd be great at getting African Warlords to stop their shit"
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Steve Nick posted...

Calling someone Korean is racially insensitive?

how come when it comes to things Trump says CE throws all context out the window? She's an American who Trump said (jokingly i guess?) should be negotiating with North Korea because...hey her family is originally from Korea....Is it racist? No...is it stupid? Incredibly...
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Pretty Korean Lady

What a monster!
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my question is who wants to emigrate from a country that they DON'T think is a shithole?
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Fishy posted...

my question is who wants to emigrate from a country that they DON'T think is a shithole?

I wanted to move to Japanese for ..reasons ... and I don't think American is a shithole.
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cjsdowg posted...

I wanted to move to Japanese for ..reasons ... and I don't think American is a shithole.

you either think japan is better or you're a massive fucking weeb (not that it's a bad thing)
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Fishy posted...

cjsdowg posted...

I wanted to move to Japanese for ..reasons ... and I don't think American is a shithole.

you either think japan is better or you're a massive fucking weeb (not that it's a bad thing)

Not true. one doesn't have to be better or worse in this case. they just offer different experiences.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

Donald Trump faced further controversy on Friday when it was reported that he referred to an intelligence analyst presenting information to him in the Oval Office as a pretty Korean lady

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cjsdowg posted...

I wanted to move to Japanese

I'd like to visit Japanese but I don't know about moving their
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

cjsdowg posted...

I wanted to move to Japanese

I'd like to visit Japanese but I don't know about moving their

I dont think English is his first language.
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He's such a moron lmfao
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If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.
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lincoln002 posted...

If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.

Lucky for everyone else that you're not in charge of anything important with that line of thinking lmfao
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More like workplace insensitive.
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Nomadic View posted...

Pretty Korean Lady

What a monster!

I know right. That's almost as disgusting as that General calling a woman honey. Absolute monsters the both of them.
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The Admiral posted...

I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.

It reduces her, a leading expert in her field (one that's still a sweeping majority men and mostly white) to a pretty Asian woman. The Asian part because he kept pushing to find out her place of origin. And then after reducing her to just a pretty face, he used that racial background to suggest she'd somehow be worth sending to North Korea. You know, because him thinking about that instead of listening to an intelligence analyst about Americans captured overseas and trying to secure their release.

But you having your nose up Trump's rump is nothing new.
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

More like workplace insensitive.

Would easily get somebody from a mid level management position canned in an attempt to dissuade litigation.
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lincoln002 posted...

If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.

Just because you're from the same country (and probably not even that since people have stated that she's American. She might have been born here) does not make you qualified to hold diplomatic negotiations. Furthermore, he said it at a time when North Korea wasn't even the topic being discussed. She was briefing him on a situation in Pakistan. To be an expert in a field and have someone reduce you down to nothing, but your race is kind of insulting.

To exaggerate a bit, it would be like me walking up to Stephen Hawking and saying "Hey you're from the UK. Give us a hand negotiating this trade deal with the English!"
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And, what do you know, the exact same people show up again to try to brush this off.
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lincoln002 posted...

If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.

Oh yeah, let's have her go negotiate for no other reason than similar appearance.She qualifies as negotiator for that one reason! YES! IT CAN WORK!

Man.....

The Admiral posted...

Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*

Go to your job and call the first minority woman you see a 'pretty *insert race here* lady". Hell as a black man i wouldn't dare say 'pretty white lady' to a coworker.
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The Admiral posted...

Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*

he's a professional. do you call your colleagues pretty _____ lady?

no, you dont. now shut the fuck up you lost your step.
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Samurontai posted...

lincoln002 posted...

If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.

Lucky for everyone else that you're not in charge of anything important with that line of thinking lmfao

Tbf it's a tactic thats been employed in sales and marketing for decades.
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I'm gonna screenshot this for the next time sAdmiral lies about he never shitposts.
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iamintents posted...

The Admiral posted...

Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*

he's a professional. do you call your colleagues pretty _____ lady?

no, you dont. now shut the fuck up you lost your step.

Bettwr question is if he'd be fine with referred to as "ugly white guy"
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

And, what do you know, the exact same people show up again to try to brush this off.

What are you going to do about it
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

iamintents posted...

The Admiral posted...

Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*

he's a professional. do you call your colleagues pretty _____ lady?

no, you dont. now shut the fuck up you lost your step.

Bettwr question is if he'd be fine with referred to as "ugly white guy"

i think its on his name tag
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Funbazooka posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

And, what do you know, the exact same people show up again to try to brush this off.

What are you going to do about it

Call your ignorance out?
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The Admiral posted...

I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.

i imagine somebody lying so barefacedly to you would be quite distressing tbf
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How would you feel if someone called you a handsome white man?
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The Admiral posted...

I cant even imagine how devastated Id be if some world leader called me the handsome American guy.

In fact, at just the thought of this, I need a short break from the Internet.

You wouldn't have to lie about being Jewish on J-Date to get dates if people called you "the handsome American guy"
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

Samurontai posted...

lincoln002 posted...

If the woman is Korean and the US could use her as a representative of the US. I'm tired of being PC, the more things in common a person has with one another the better they can negotiate.

Lucky for everyone else that you're not in charge of anything important with that line of thinking lmfao

Tbf it's a tactic thats been employed in sales and marketing for decades.

I don't think race is generally called into it with that tactic. I don't see myself walking up to a black woman and even mentioning that she's black without me being very inappropriate. The whole thing is actually inappropriate but people are easily swayed so it can be ignored but mentioning race is not a sales tactic lol.

Piersons_Fox posted...

How would you feel if someone called you a handsome white man?

I'd thank them.
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iamintents posted...

The Great Muta 22 posted...

iamintents posted...

The Admiral posted...

Pretty Korean lady

*is visibly shaken*

he's a professional. do you call your colleagues pretty _____ lady?

no, you dont. now shut the fuck up you lost your step.

Bettwr question is if he'd be fine with referred to as "ugly white guy"

i think its on his name tag

xD

Wow, what a monster. I can't believe he has the balls to call someone pretty.

Snowflakes are melting over this? Seriously?
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